Day 23 My Attitude of Gratitude Journal

My post for today published out of sync so please could you click on this link to see today's page.

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Day 22 My Attitude of Gratitude Journal

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Here on this blog I am going to share how I made the page for today's prompt on Thanksgiving.

Today's art challenge was to 'find a way to add texture to your page today'.

I spread a narrow strip of gesso down the left hand side of the page and pressed a rubber stamp into the gesso and left the gesso to dry.  Remember to clean your stamp straightaway.

I wiped some turquoise and some green acrylic paint onto the whole page.

Then I stamped the leaves with gesso instead of ink.

When the gesso had dried I sprayed with pink ink and restamped the leaf stamps with black Archival ink. 

I  also stamped some leaves off the edge of the page.  I stuck the verse on and did the journaling.

As the gesso dried it absorbed some of the bright pink ink so now the leaves are slightly pink!

Another page to come back to I think.  I might possibly highlight the flower pattern on the left hand side with black pen.  Not sure though!  What do you think?

See you tomorrow.

Day 21 My Attitude of Gratitude Journal

If you want to join in with making an Attitude of Gratitude Journal through the month of November click through to the Challenge blog.

Here on this blog I am going to share how I made the page for today's prompt on Celebration

Today's art challenge was to 'use wrapping paper on your page today'.

I sprayed the inks onto my paper and then to get rid of the excess paint I put it ink side down on my backing paper and interesting things happened. 

It picked up the turquoise stamping I had done when I was cleaning the stamp from the faux stitching. And picked up some of the other colours!

I stamped some balloons at the top of the page.

This is a tip from Dyan Reaveley.  I stamped two of the images on plain paper and cut them out and covered two of the sets of balloons.  I stamped over the top.

I did this several times and all the ones I stamped after the initial four sets look as thought they are behind the first ones.  Clever or what!?!   Thank you Dyan.

I painted different colours in the balloons with acrylic paint and some of the inks,

I added my verse and my journaling.

Where the rectangular highlights are on the balloons I coloured in with a yellow glaze pen.  I did this three times.  You have to wait for it to dry between each application.

Then I realised I'd forgotten the wrapping paper.  I could only find birthday paper even though I'd written about Christmas.  But never mind!

I punched out some circles and stuck them on.

I think I will need to come back and find some way to integrate the circles a little more.  They look like I forgot the challenge and just stuck something on randomly.  Which of course is what I did!!!!

What are you celebrating today?